Hollyfort - Wexford Guide and Directory, 1885
About “Wexford County Guide and Directory,” 1885
George Henry Bassett produced 7 Irish county directories in the 1880s: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Kilkenny, Louth, Tipperary and Wexford. Each provides useful history of the respective counties as well as lists of office holders, farmers, traders, and other residents of the individual cities, towns and villages.
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- This online version of Bassett’s Wexford County Guide and Directory is designed primarily as a genealogical research tool and therefore the numerous advertisements in the original book, many full page, and quite a few illustrated, have been excluded.
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ON a hill-side, six miles English, to the north-west of Gorey, is the village of Hollyfort. The population is under 100. It is situated on the river Bann, and has fairly good fishing. Lord Powerscourt is the landlord. The houses are slated, and the lands of the district fitted both for pasture and tillage. Gorey is the nearest railway station.
Rev. A. Conway, Rector (I.C.) Kilnahue
John Tunstead, Postmaster
Sergt. Birney, R.I.C.
Miss Bradley, Mistress Nat Schl.
Grocer, Flour, Provisions, and Spirits— Wm. Tunstead
FARMERS, LANDOWNERS, &c.
Allen, Peter, Tomathone upper
Boland, Sylvester, Annagh long
Brislawn, James, Slievebawn
Buttle, John, Kilmichael hill
Buttle, William, Tinnashinna
Byrne, Andrew, Clonroe
Byrne, James, Clonroe,
Darcy, Michael, Annagh lower
Donnelly, Myles, Monaseed
Doyle, James, Monaseed
Dunn, John, Tomathone upper
Eagar, Wm., sen., Annagh central
Graham, Rd., Thomathone lower
Hara, Patrick, Annagh gap
Harrison, Thomas, Annagh mdle
Kinsella, Alexander, Foxcover
Kinsella, William, Kilmichael lr
Laurence, Thomas, Grove mill
M‘Donald, Daniel, Kilmichael up
Mordaunt George, Lyrane
Mulligan, James, Annagh hill
Murray, Christopher, Connahill
Oughton, Henry, Bolaney
Pierce, Roger, Clonroe lr
Purcell, Edward, Barrogue
Rickaby, John, Foxcover
Smith, James, Slievebawn
Toole, Mathew, Annagh middle
Webster, Charles, Grove great
Whitmore, John, Bannview
Woodburn, John, Annagh central
Wyatt, Arthur, Earlswood
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